Fountain models (terracotta)
Name of structure: | Fountain models (terracotta) |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | ex-voto objects |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Calabria |
City or area within region: | Prehistoric cave near Locri |
Date of structure: | |
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Specific place of mosaic: | Found among a number of ex-voto objects |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | 11 terracotta models of fountains or nymphaea, decorated and some encrusted with shells |
Date of mosaic: | 3rd century BC |
Century of mosaic 1: | 3 BCE |
Century of mosaic 2: | |
Silver tessera at site: | No |
Gold tessera at site: | No |
Colour tessera at site: | No |
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
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Samples taken from where? | |
Excavation and restoration campaigns: | |
Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), p. 44 |
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Comments: | Now in National Museum, Reggio Calabria |